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Connected Cars: Driving Us to a Better Us – Dj Das Presenting

The In-Memory Computing Summit 2015 is the first and only industry-wide event of its kind, tailored to in-memory computing-related technologies and solutions. It is the perfect opportunity to reach technical IT decision makers as well as IT implementers and developers who make or influence purchasing decisions in the areas of in-memory computing, Fast Data, IoT and HPC. Attendees will include CTOs, Vice Presidents, IT directors, IT managers, data scientists, senior engineers, senior developers, architects, technologists and more. It will provide a unique forum for networking, education and the exchange of ideas — ideas that will [...]

Global Predictive Analytics Conference – Dj Das Presenting

  Global Big Data Conference’s vendor agnostic Global Predictive Analytics Conference will be held on May 4th & May 5th, 2015 for all industry verticals. The Conference allows practitioners to discuss data management through effective use of data analytics. […]

Michael Stonebraker wins the A.M. Turing Prize!

We, at ThirdEye, are thrilled that Michael Stonebraker has been awarded the A.M. Turing Prize, computer science’s highest award. You can see the detailed article about it on the Fortune – Michael Stonebraker, serial database genius, brings home Turing Award. Michael gracefully replied to our congratulatory email and wished us well. […]

Taking the “Oops” out of Hadoop

Taking the "Oops" out of Hadoop Hosted by Dj D. and Samita S. Details Hadoop has become the very backbone of enterprises working on Big Data. But as Hadoop becomes a critical component of every enterprise’s Big Data needs, its complexity to implement, maintain and develop has increased substantially. Such intricacies create a lot of productivity killers for developers and DevOps personnel. This meetup will dive deep into how enterprises can remove the Oops from their Hadoop systems in a reliable, consistent and effective manner. The meetup discussions will focus on real-world use cases from following three key areas: Running [...]

How to Debug Map-Reduce Code

How to Debug Map-Reduce Code It All Starts with HDFS Everything in Hadoop cluster is based on the HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System). Quite often HDFS problems will manifest themselves in various components of Hadoop framework. This might show up as an intermittent failure, permission issue, failure to write, or failure to retrieve data blocks, etc. Sometimes the root cause is found in the HDFS itself. Meaning, the Hadoop cluster could be unbalanced, some of the datanodes might be overloaded or there is simply not enough space. The good news is that the Hadoop framework [...]

Crime Analytics & Predictions System – LIVE WEBINAR

  Committing Crime is the final frontier – where a human starts to degenerate into a renegade, a social waste and capable of causing huge personal and financial loss to individuals, businesses and the government. Thus, battling crime, reducing the number of occurrences, preventing and predicting crime has become a huge commitment for police forces around the world. […]

DevOps Special – Deploying Hadoop Using Docker Containers.

DevOps Special - Deploying Hadoop Using Docker Containers. Hosted by Dj D. Details Deploying Hadoop Using Docker Containers: What Works and What Doesn’t. A special meetup brought to you by Big Data Cloud with focus on the DevOps side of the world of Big Data. ------------------------------------------------------------ Agenda: 6:00 - 6:30 pm: Registration and Snacks. 6:30 - 6:35 pm: Opening remarks and housekeeping. 6:35 - 7:15 pm: TBA 7:15 - 7:30 pm: Break • 7:30 - 8:30 pm Deploying Hadoop Using Docker Containers:What Works and What Doesn’t Presenter: Nasser Manesh, Altiscale, Inc. In this presentation, Nasser will share his experiences and [...]

Securing Enterprise Data with Hadoop : What Are Your Options?

Securing Enterprise Data with Hadoop : What Are Your Options? Hosted by Dj D. Details A key driver to getting Hadoop into production is to enable rapid time-to-insight for your company. Unfortunately, the realization that sensitive, regulated data— payments transactions, customer personally identifiable information (PII), and more—will be flowing unprotected into the Hadoop “data lake”, can present a big hurdle to implementation. Join us to understand architectural options for securing Hadoop data, illustrated by real-world use cases. Agenda • 6:00 - 6:30 - Registration/Dinner and Socializing • 6:30 - 6:35 - Opening remarks, and housekeeping • 6:35 - 7:35 - [...]

Extending Enterprise Data Warehousing into the world of Big Data

Extending Enterprise Data Warehousing into the world of Big Data. Hosted by Dj D. and Samita S. Details Extending Enterprise Data Warehousing into the world of Big Data – Business Value Creation & Technical Use Cases. An evening of presentation and fireside chat with “Dean of Big Data” Bill Schmarzo (EMC) and Big Data Strategist - Rajiv Synghal (Kaiser Permanente). A special meetup brought to you by Big Data Cloud with the support and sponsorship from Xplain.io to showcase the real world business use cases from industry pioneers. Agenda: 6:00pm-6:30pm: Registration and Snacks. 6:30-6:35pm: Opening remarks and housekeeping. 6:35-7:30pm Systematic [...]

Predictive Analytics for Crime Detection & Prediction – LIVE WEBINAR

Predictive Analytics for Crime Detection & Prediction – LIVE WEBINAR Committing Crime is the final frontier – where a human starts to degenerate into a renegade, a social waste and capable of causing huge personal and financial loss to individuals, businesses and the government.  Thus, battling crime, reducing the number of occurrences, preventing and predicting crime has become a huge commitment for police forces around the world. […]

Real-time Recommendation Systems using Apache Storm

Real-time Recommendation Systems using Apache Storm Generally in recommendation engines, user’s past history on engagements with different items is a key input. However, in many situations in an enterprise’s business cycle, it is necessary to generate recommendations based on user activity in real time. […]

Apache Shark & Storm Use Cases – Big Data Cloud Meetup – April 3 2014

Apache Shark & Storm Use Cases – Big Data Cloud Meetup – April 3 2014 Big Data analytics is the answer for businesses to glean insights from data and take timely actions. We now have a plethora technologies at our disposal to perform such Big Data analytics. This webinar showcases how business can perform Big Data analytics using Hive, PrestoDB and BigQuery. In this one-hour webinar, we will showcase & discuss: Data ingestion to visualization - end to end data flow of Twitter feed Running various types of queries, including ones with UDFs Comparing querying capabilities & performances between [...]

WHY HADOOP? WHY NOW?

  As data volumes explode throughout the universe; data variety becomes increasingly important for consideration in business decisions, and data velocity no longer remains a technical challenge – we enter a new world dominated by data that requires new technologies to meet it’s new demands. […]

BDC Learning Track – Studying & Implementing Recommendation Engine Algorithms.

BDC Learning Track - Studying & Implementing Recommendation Engine Algorithms. Hosted by Dj D. Details This is a FREE event. Agenda 06:30 pm - 07:00 pm : Networking over Pizza 07:00 pm - 07:30 pm : Introduction to Recommendation Engines 07:30 pm - 08:00 pm : Form study groups and work 08:00 pm - 08:30 pm : Group sessions and Q/A First in a series of four weekly sprints, we will be studying and implementing Recommendation Engine algorithms. We will start with Collaborative Filtering and then slowly expand in to other algorithms as well. We will also be using MongoDB [...]